In case you decide to design your own plug-in, another useful page can be found at http://www2.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de/~bless/the-gimp.html. This site, maintained by Marc Bless, has pointers to the

good place for the swap. GNU Image Manipulation Program 29 / 653 Figure 2.4: GIMP Performance Tuning The User Performance Tuning screen Finally . . . So now you have GIMP installed and configured, and memory–say, 512 MB or more–setting the Tile Cache to half of your RAM will probably give good performance for GIMP in most situations without depriving other applications. Probably even 3/4 of your RAM lot of space or high performance. By default, a subdirectory called tmp in your personal GIMP directory is used, but if that disk is very cramped for space, or has serious performance issues, you can change

images gracefully. There are limits, however, and having more memory available may improve system performance. Layers If a simple image can be compared to a single sheet of paper, an image with layers is your personal GIMP directory is used, but if that disk is very cramped for space, or has serious performance issues, you can change it to a different directory. The directory must exist and be writable by GIMP can potentially require hundreds of megabytes of swap space, so available disk space and performance are definitely things to think about for this folder. By default, it is set to your personal GIMP

of incidental or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing, performance, or use of the programs, associated instructions, and/or claims of productivity gains. Trademarks A nd Pr ef er e n c e s Suggestions How should you configure these directories for optimal performance? If you are on a system that mounts home directories from a server over NFS and/or you have only Instead of using shared memory, Gimp will send the data via pipe. This will result in slower performance than using shared memory. ––no–xshm Do not use the X Shared Memory extension. If Gimp is being

memory–say, 512 MB or more–setting the Tile Cache to half of your RAM will probably give good performance for GIMP in most situations without depriving other applications. Probably even 3/4 of your RAM Preferences dialog, which lets you alter a variety of settings that affect the look, feel, and performance of the GIMP. Activating the Command • You can access this command in the Toolbox menu bar through